Enclosed Asian theme malls line Hazelbridge Way, their escalators opening onto fountains and food courts past storefronts signed mostly in Chinese.
What Golden Village looks like
Golden Village runs along Hazelbridge Way between No. 3 Road and Garden City Road, a row of enclosed Asian malls rather than one continuous strip. is the largest, a three storey building behind a serpentine glass curtain wall of clear and tinted panels that lights up from inside after dark. Most of the district's malls are entered from the street's west side.
Hazelbridge Way itself is a wide suburban arterial, mall entrances and surface parking lots on both sides rather than a continuous storefront wall. Smaller plazas carry the same look in miniature, low rise strip buildings with blue or beige metal roofs over surface parking. Their signs are printed mostly in Chinese. An overhead walkway crosses from Aberdeen Centre to , where the Canada Line runs on an elevated concourse of concrete pillars and glass.
Inside Aberdeen Centre, escalators climb past three retail levels to an atrium where a musical fountain performs on the hour below rows of storefront signs. 's own supermarket, Osaka, displays the same bilingual Chinese and English signage over its aisles. Fairchild Group's radio and television studios occupy the upper floors, above the shops.
Shot in Golden Village
For Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas, the production used Aberdeen Centre's mall interior for a Santa photo scene and its largest musical number. Mo's one shot song and dance was filmed inside the mall in September 2021.
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas, 2021
Aberdeen Centre
Played a shopping mall, an unspecified city, present day
Mo's holiday song, the film's largest musical number, was shot as a one shot inside Aberdeen Centre. A separate scene dressed the mall as a Christmas set with a Santa photo booth. Street View
Flushing's downtown malls share the same mall atrium escalators climbing past tenants under storefront signs printed mostly in Chinese, with a food court on an upper level. New World Mall's atrium and escalator bank match Aberdeen Centre's scale closely. Flushing's buildings sit closer to the street and the signage runs taller and more vertical, so a wide establishing shot needs careful framing to avoid the skyline giving it away. Try searching mall atrium escalators now.
Markham in Ontario, Canada
Pacific Mall's covered mall arcade reads the same way as Golden Village's mix of enclosed malls, down to the pylon signs lettered in Chinese and English. Pacific Mall's interior arcade is narrower and more maze like than Aberdeen Centre's open atrium, so a wider interior shot suits Golden Village's own malls better. Try searching covered mall arcade now.
Haymarket in Sydney, New South Wales
Market City's escalators over a food court and a ground floor of grocers and electronics shops give Haymarket a similar enclosed mall feel. The signage above its storefronts runs in English and Chinese at the same density as Golden Village's malls. Market City's exterior is a heritage former market building rather than Aberdeen Centre's serpentine glass curtain wall, so this match works best for interior escalator and food court shots rather than the building's outside. Try searching escalators over a food court now.
